5 Minute Friday Episode 3-81 Hope Matters

Thomas Edison said many of life's failures are people who do not realize how closely

were to success when they gave up.

What would you try if you knew you were eventually going to succeed at it someday?

What would you try?

I thought that it would be easier to just happen without any effort or execution, but what

would you try?

Something that you would work, you would try, you might fail, you might get messy, you

would try some more fail, and then eventually succeed.

See the truth is, you're already there.

You're already at the point of, I'm just about to succeed.

You're just about to reach that goal that you have in mind.

Even if you're in the dark, even if you're at rock bottom right now, even if you're

stumbling around clueless in this moment, there's one thing that makes all the difference

between the failures that hold people back and the failures that push people forward.

And that is hope.

And Lamat said that hope begins in the dark.

The stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will

come.

You know, I remember a moment where it was extremely dark for me.

When I was a kid in elementary school, my parents were going through a lot of stress.

I felt constantly bullied growing up.

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